Patch "scsi: hpsa: limit outstanding rescans" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    scsi: hpsa: limit outstanding rescans

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     scsi-hpsa-limit-outstanding-rescans.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:47:43 CET 2017
From: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:35:17 -0600
Subject: scsi: hpsa: limit outstanding rescans

From: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>


[ Upstream commit 87b9e6aa87d9411f1059aa245c0c79976bc557ac ]

Avoid rescan storms. No need to queue another if one is pending.

Reviewed-by: Scott Benesh <scott.benesh@microsemi.com>
Reviewed-by: Scott Teel <scott.teel@microsemi.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/scsi/hpsa.c |   16 +++++++++++++++-
 drivers/scsi/hpsa.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
@@ -5254,7 +5254,7 @@ static void hpsa_scan_complete(struct ct
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&h->scan_lock, flags);
 	h->scan_finished = 1;
-	wake_up_all(&h->scan_wait_queue);
+	wake_up(&h->scan_wait_queue);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&h->scan_lock, flags);
 }
 
@@ -5272,11 +5272,23 @@ static void hpsa_scan_start(struct Scsi_
 	if (unlikely(lockup_detected(h)))
 		return hpsa_scan_complete(h);
 
+	/*
+	 * If a scan is already waiting to run, no need to add another
+	 */
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&h->scan_lock, flags);
+	if (h->scan_waiting) {
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&h->scan_lock, flags);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&h->scan_lock, flags);
+
 	/* wait until any scan already in progress is finished. */
 	while (1) {
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&h->scan_lock, flags);
 		if (h->scan_finished)
 			break;
+		h->scan_waiting = 1;
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&h->scan_lock, flags);
 		wait_event(h->scan_wait_queue, h->scan_finished);
 		/* Note: We don't need to worry about a race between this
@@ -5286,6 +5298,7 @@ static void hpsa_scan_start(struct Scsi_
 		 */
 	}
 	h->scan_finished = 0; /* mark scan as in progress */
+	h->scan_waiting = 0;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&h->scan_lock, flags);
 
 	if (unlikely(lockup_detected(h)))
@@ -8502,6 +8515,7 @@ reinit_after_soft_reset:
 	init_waitqueue_head(&h->event_sync_wait_queue);
 	mutex_init(&h->reset_mutex);
 	h->scan_finished = 1; /* no scan currently in progress */
+	h->scan_waiting = 0;
 
 	pci_set_drvdata(pdev, h);
 	h->ndevices = 0;
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ struct ctlr_info {
 	dma_addr_t		errinfo_pool_dhandle;
 	unsigned long  		*cmd_pool_bits;
 	int			scan_finished;
+	u8			scan_waiting : 1;
 	spinlock_t		scan_lock;
 	wait_queue_head_t	scan_wait_queue;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from don.brace@microsemi.com are

queue-4.4/scsi-hpsa-limit-outstanding-rescans.patch
queue-4.4/scsi-hpsa-cleanup-sas_phy-structures-in-sysfs-when-unloading.patch
queue-4.4/scsi-hpsa-destroy-sas-transport-properties-before-scsi_host.patch
queue-4.4/scsi-hpsa-update-check-for-logical-volume-status.patch